[Antir_scribes] Allo... Tvorimir Danilov sdes.... Wyewood scribe

[AnTir Scribe]

Greetings Mir,

Thought to offer you and the list - my small experience with young people.

I too purchased a few sets of Reeves Gouache and plastic paint palettes (the
ones with small holes) and cheap fine brushes.

I designed a very simple graphic Lion's Cub Charter and had it printed onto
some fine paper that I hand cut (won't do it that way again - will probably
use paper similar to what the Kingdom uses for Charters).  The Design was
very colorbook like and was made with very thick lines (that way, the paint
is usually contained better because the printed toner has some resist
qualities)

The Design was small (8 x 10) and I would probably do it on 8.5 x 11 today.

The design left off the names of the King and Queen so that these charters
would be everlasting - I've used them for about 12 or 13 years - but only
have about 4 or so left of the original 100.

I also printed the design on regular copy paper and had first time kids use
markers to show me how they intended to paint their real charter.

Anyway - the thing is, that I tell the kids that when they are finished,
they can take their piece to the Queen and offer it as a gift for Their
Majesties use.  (I usually fill in the King and Queen names before it is
given).  In addition to this, I also taught the children to bead a necklace
to go with the award document.  This way, the King and Queen had all They
needed to give out the award to a worthy child.

I believe the kids found real satisfaction in their service and that this
was a great teaching tool to help children learn service in AnTir.

This is all sort of age and maturity dependent - some of the paintings were
unusable.  But many Children really take this seriously - when they
understand what they are painting.  Also, the coloring of a sample - up
front - can prove a child's willingness and ability to complete the task.

One of the most important things that I found with teaching kids (and some
new adults) is that you only need a small dab of paint - and that the paint
can be re-hydrated after it drys in the tray to still be useful.  Biggest
problem - wasted paint.  Second biggest problem - trying to lay paint that
was too dry.


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Bronwen

On 11/10/09, Mir Plemmons <mir.plemmons at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings, all.
>
> Somewhere under a shudderingly-large mound of rust rests the former Wyewood
> Domesday Butler...  The current host of Wyewood's Scriptorium (since Tam
> moved) is desperately trying to *find* that butler, who most definitely did
> better scribing than I do now!
>
> Anyway, I've added this list so I actually *hear* things like His Maj
> doesn't like two-color griffins sometime before I let someone waste time on
> it...
>
> Erm... I'm a large Russian (who isn't Pyotr), I marshal, chirurgeon and
> field herald and like scribing because the gouache is an artsy break from
> my
> other volunteering, and yet is very forgiving when I put down the brush to
> go handle something in a hurry. I'm mostly seen in Western, have been in
> the
> SCA for years, and only scribing very sporadically for the last several. I
> got into charter painting when charters were brought to a shire social
> meeting, so I'm recruiting using the same method.
>
> I do need advice - I have a few very interested children and would love to
> get pointed to good ways to provide them with painting experiences that
> aren't harmful to my brushes or our kinda-expensive charters yet let the
> kids feel like they're doing something similar. Websites of cool line
> drawings I can print? Suggestions of what you've seen work and appeal to
> them?
>
> Thanks!
>
> isttd,
> Mir
>
> I was made to promise to *introduce* myself properly w/ title - but please
> be welcome to ignore this - I'm Master Tvorimir Danilov, OP.
> The part to pay attention to is that I am the Grand Puntiff of An Tir. You
> have been warned...
>
> hee hee,
> Mir
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